Transpiration and translocation

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1. Xylem and phloem
2. Transpiration and translocation
3. Why plants need transport tissues
4. Inside a xylem vessel
5. Inside a phloem sieve tube
6. Vascular tissues in the root
7. Vascular tissues in stem and leaf
8. How roots take up water
9. How roots take up mineral salts
10. Apoplast, symplast and the Casparian strip
11. Cohesion, tension and root pressure
12. Using a potometer
13. Investigating factors that change transpiration
14. Other ways to show water movement
15. Leaves that save water
16. Mass flow in phloem
17. Evidence for translocation
18. Transport, crops and water in Kenya